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Russia Ramps Up Threats Toward Ukraine Over Victory Day Parade
Kremlin officials said a large strike on Kyiv would be “inevitable” if Ukraine disrupted the May 9 event, a prospect President Volodymyr Zelensky has appeared to allude to. Russia has enhanced security in Moscow ahead of Saturday’s Victory Day parade. Reuters By Cassandra Vinograd and Ivan Nechepurenko Cassandra Vinograd reported from Kyiv, Ukraine and Ivan Nechepurenko from Tbilisi, Georgia. May 7, 2026 Updated 10:15 a.m. ET Russia and Ukraine are trading threats and attacks ahead of Moscow’s May 9 Victory Day celebrations, seeding further anxiety about potential weekend violence in both capitals. Moscow has already announced that it would scale back the parade, acknowledging that it was concerned about long-range Ukrainian strikes. The Russian foreign ministry has urged foreign diplomats to leave Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, warning late Wednesday that a “retaliatory strike” would be “inevitable” if Kyiv were to disrupt the parade — a prospect that President Volodymyr Zelensky o...
Taiwan Could Learn From Ukraine. Informally, Connections Are Growing.
The governments have no official diplomatic or military ties. But a loose network led by company executives and volunteers is bridging some of that gulf. Members of a Ukrainian drone regiment in the Kharkiv region in September. Taiwan is eager to learn from Ukraine’s experience, especially when it comes to drone warfare. Credit... Finbarr O’Reilly for The New York Times By Maria Varenikova and Amy Chang Chien Maria Varenikova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, and Amy Chang Chien from Taipei, Taiwan. May 5, 2026 Maria Varenikova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, and Amy Chang Chien from Taipei, Taiwan. The New York Times , May 5, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET Original article containes links Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lee delivered parcels in Taiwan for a living, hung out with friends or played video games after work. He knew of Ukraine only from S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a game set in the Chernobyl nuclear zone. Now, he is serving in the Ukrainian Army on the battlefiel...
Deadly Russian Strikes Rip Into Ukrainian Cities
At least 12 people were killed in Zaporizhzhia, one of the highest tolls from a single attack so far this year . The cities of Dnipro and Kramatorsk were also attacked. VIDEO [not usable on this entry]: Russian forces launched an attack on three Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, killing more than 20 people and injuring dozens of others. The attack came after Russia announced a cease-fire timed to Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9, commemorating the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War II. CreditCredit...Serhii Chalyi/Reuters By Cassandra Vinograd Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine May 5, 2026 Russian bombs tore into Ukrainian cities on Tuesday afternoon and evening, killing more than 20 people and wounding dozens of others. The deadly strikes drew a furious response from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said they showed the cynicism behind Russia’s announcement of a cease-fire timed to Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9. Mr. Zelensky had challenged t...
Trump’s Ukraine Policy Is Succeeding While His Iran Policy Flails
Newsletter Ross Douthat OPINION The New York Times , May 5, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET Credit... Photo illustration by The New York Times; source images by Saul Loeb, Mansoreh Motamedi, and SimpleImages, via Getty Images By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist One of the many ironies of Donald Trump’s war against Iran is that only a year ago, most of the president’s critics assumed that any second-term crisis for the American empire would be caused not by reckless war-making, but by appeasement and retreat. In particular, the Trumpian push for peace between Russia and Ukraine was cast as the great betrayal, craven and sinister in equal measure, that would yield disaster for Europe and disgrace for the United States. Yet today, as Trump struggles to find an exit strategy from his Middle Eastern war of choice, his administration’s policy toward Ukraine looks like everything his Iran policy is not: an effective rebalancing for a multipolar world, in which a major rival has been contai...